Bod-Inc: V-083
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera, et al.
Analysis of Content
a2r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga prima interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus amici'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072.
b5v Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Tetrastichon in primum librum Georgicon Virgilii'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quae sydera seruet | Agricola ut facile terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
b5v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
f3r Octavius Augustus [pseudo-]: ‘Pro Virgilii Aeneide uersus'. Incipit: ‘[E]rgo ne supremis potuit uox improba uerbis | Tam dirum mandare nephas? ergo ibit in ignes?’ See V‑072.
f3v [Argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae contineant duodecim Aeneidos libri'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem; Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
f3r [Second argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libyes depellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
f3r [Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[Q]ualis buccolicis: quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque satis pecorique apibusque'. See V‑072.
f4r [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coegi'. See V‑072.
f4r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aeneis. Verg. A.
z1r [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] See V‑075.
z1v Vegius, Maphaeus: ‘Aeneidos liber tertiusdecimus'. See V‑075.
aa1v Alcimus [Alethius]?: ‘Alcinii uersus'. See V‑075.
aa1v Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Cornelii Galli uersus'. See V‑075.
aa2r Vergilius Maro, Publius: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
aa2r ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
aa2v ‘De liuore'. See V‑075.
aa2v [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. See V‑075.
aa3r [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. See V‑075.
aa3r ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
aa3v ‘De Orpheo'. See V‑075.
aa3v ‘De seipso'. See V‑075.
aa3v [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
aa3v ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
aa4r [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
aa4r ‘Argumenta. xii. librorum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘Aeolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianosque uagos Libycas expellit in oras'. See V‑075.
aa5r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ See V‑072.
aa5r [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragedias, Talia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsichore psalterium, Eratho geometriam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia retoricam.’
aa5r Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Elegia in Mecoenatis obitu quae dicitur Virgilii cum non sit'. See V‑072. On the pseudo-Vergilian authorship and the transmission of this poem, see notes on ‘Appendix Vergiliana' in V‑072 [A4r].
aa7v Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illustrium'. See V‑072.
aa7v Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa7v Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa7v Pompelianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa7v Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Vovianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Eugenius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Iulianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Hilasius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
aa8r [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
aa8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
aa8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
aa8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
aa8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Juppiter in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. See V‑075.
aa8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tarpeo quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
aa8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Littera rem gestam loquitur res ipsa medullam | Verbi quam vivax mens videt intus habet'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
aa8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus iuvenis serpens casum venere sub unum | Sus iacet extinctus serpens pede tum ille veneno'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
aa8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Anguis aper iuvenis pereunt in vulnere morsu | Hic fremit ille gemit sibilat hic moriens'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
aa8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus serpens iuvenis pariter periere vicissim | Dente perit iuvenis serpens pede porcus ab ictu'; 2 hexameters.
aa8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo'. See V‑075.
bb1r Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii uersus experientia.’ See V‑075.
bb1r Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii experientia.’ See V‑075.
bb1v ‘De quattuor temporibus anni.’ See V‑075.
bb2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. See V‑075.
bb3r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. See V‑075.
bb3v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. see V‑075.
bb3v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De eignis(!) caslestibus(!)'. See V‑075.
bb4v Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versus'. Incipit: ‘Qalis(!) bucolicis quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque apibus pecorique satisque'; 4 hexameters. See V‑072.
bb4v ‘Summa Virgilianae narrationis in tribus operibus Bucolicis Georgicis et Aeneide'. Incipit: ‘Pastorum musam uario certamine promit | Ruris item dociles culturam carmine monstrat'. See V‑072.
bb5r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–LXXXI]. ‘Ad Priapum'. See V‑075.
cc6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. See V‑072.
cc6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
cc7r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
cc7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.
cc8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.
dd5v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.
dd8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aetna. ‘Quae a quibusdam Cornelio attribuitur'. See V‑075.
ee8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. See V‑075.
gg1v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–III]. ‘Catalecton. Priapus loquitur'. Incipit: ‘Vere rosa autumno pomis, aestate frequentor | Spicis una mihi est horrida pestis hyems'. See V‑075.
gg2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [I–XIII.16]. See V‑081.
gg4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Antonius Zarotus, for Johannes de Legnano, 24 Apr. 1482. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–h I k L m–z aa–ff8 gg6.
References
ISTC: iv00164000
Hain: C 6028;
Goff: Goff V‑164;
BMC: BMC XII 50;
Proctor: Pr 5839;
Others: CIBN V‑124; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 34; Davies–Goldfinch 32; Mambelli 42; Sheppard 4862.
LCN: 14696831
Copies
Copy number: V-083(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1 and leaves bb6–8, cc1–5, containing the Priapea, and gg6, containing the colophon.
Binding: Late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century gold-tooled olive morocco, stamped with the monogram ‘EVU'; dark red pastedowns.
Size: 286 × 206 × 51 mm.
Size of leaf: 273 × 186 mm.
A few marginal notes in a sixteenth-century continental hand, including running headings and brackets. Manuscript copy of colophon in an eighteenth-century hand on slip attached to the rear endleaf. Bibliographical notes in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand on recto of the front endleaf and notes in Duff's hand on a slip of paper attached to another front endleaf.
On a2r an Italian quarter white vine-stem borders clearly outlined in black ink, on a blue, red, and green ground incorporating a five-line initial ‘T' painted in gold; see Pächt and Alexander II, 114 no. pr. 140. Elsewhere two- to eight-line initials are supplied in red and green.
Provenance: Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856); see monogram on binding; not identified in his sale catalogues. Purchased for £11; see Books Purchased (1852), 92.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.34.
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